Spiderman Equestria's Hero: Back In Action

3 weeks before Adam came to Earth 16

Creaking down an old shaft was a rusty elevator, carrying someone down to his underground lab; the scientist saw his lab assistant working with the vials of DNA and chemicals they had been developing.

“Are we ready to begin the test trial?” the scientist asked.

The assistant turned to her brother and explained, “Yep, we’re all ready Mickey.” she picked up a vile of yellow liquid and loaded it into a syringe.

This was the lab of Dr Michael Morbius, just minutes before he did what he did to become what he is today. Dr Morbius picked up the audio recorder, but he then put it down again; Morbius turned to his sister and wanted to say something.

Michael got her attention and explained, “I’m not sure about this, Felicia; there’s still so much we don’t know about this, the side effects it may create. I just think we need to do some more testing...”

Felicia then cut him off, “We’ve done enough testing, Michael; we are about to do something that will make us go down in history, and you want to stop now?”

His sister was right, this was his greatest achievement, he was not going to throw his life’s work away now. So Dr Morbius picked up the audio recorder; before pressing play, he turned to Felicia.

“Are you ready, Felicia?” he asked.

She replied, “Go for it, big bro.”

Present Day

A clock hanging on the wall was ticking to the appointed time; coming up to eight-thirty in the morning, the school bell rang, alerting the students of Canterlot High School to get to class.

In one of the classrooms, a certain person was setting up the desks so the days lesson could begin; Twilight Sparkle, a former student here, and now it’s newest Physics teacher. Well, co-teacher; her partner in the class was running late, again.

As the school bell chimed, the students began entering the class; taking their seats and greeting their friends. Whilst the students were sitting down, Twilight took her position at the back of the class room.

The newest school principle was following the students in and explained, “We have a bell for a reason, students. Please take your seats.” Cranky Doodle looked at Twilight at the back of the room, he noticed that someone was missing.

Suddenly, the classroom door swung open, and the second teacher came into the room. “I’m here!” He shouted. “I’m here.”

Adam Shy, took his wife’s last name; he’s been married to one of Twilight Sparkle’s best-friends, Fluttershy, for almost two years now. He and Twilight thought it would be a good idea for them to apply for teaching jobs here at the school they both used to attend; Twilight’s girlfriend, Sunset Shimmer, always said they were the smart ones in the group.

When Principle Doodle saw the new teacher walk, or storm in, he addressed the class; the head-teacher explained, “Good morning class. Today, we have two new teachers joining us; Mr Shy.” He gestured to Adam. “And Miss Sparkle.” He then gestured to Twilight.

With the introductions out of the way, Cranky Doodle left the room; now it was Adam’s turn to address his students. “Hello.” He started with. “My name is Ad... Mr.... Mr Shy. And we’re all very lucky; because this is Physics class, and Physics is awesome.”

Twilight noticed something from where she was stood, the red fabric that could be seen poking out of the top of Adam’s shirt; she coughed and poked at that spot on her own person. This caught Adam’s attention and he turned around to quickly adjust his shirt.

Once all was okay again, Adam continued with the lesson; while he spoke, Twilight looked outside and could see what looked like a cloud of black smoke fogging up the air outside. She suddenly got a familiar feeling in her brain, telling her this was something wrong. Twilight Sparkle then walked down the isles of the desks and past Adam, she excused herself for the moment.

“I’ll be right back.” Twilight explained.

“Okay.” Adam replied.

Once Twilight was gone, Adam once again continued; he began writing on the whiteboard, explaining the theory of surface tension. One of the students looked over at the open window and ash particles seeping into the room. Without saying a word, this student just got up and closed the window.

Suddenly, Twilight came back into the room, “Uh, Mr Shy. Can I please talk with you out in the hallway; I need your help with something.” This suddenly got the students snickering and talking amongst themselves, like their was something going on between their two teachers.

Adam replied, “Uh Miss Sparkle. Are you sure this isn’t something you can handle yourself?”

“I’m sure.” She replied.

Twilight walked out the door again, Adam had no choice but to follow; but before he left, he explained to the class, "Okay class, read chapters four...or five... or do what you like.” Adam then sprinted down the hallway after Twilight.

She stopped at the staircase that led to the roof; once they were both on the stairs, Adam said, “Twilight, we need these jobs. If Cranky Doodle comes back and sees we’re gone, we’re gonna get fired.”

“I know, but you have to see this.” Twilight explained.

Once she was sure no one was around to see them, Twilight began using her web-shooters to swing herself up to the top of the staircase; Adam followed her and did the same.

Once the two of them were on the roof, Twilight pointed to the large cloud of smoke half way across the city; that was shooting out lava balls and causing fires all over the city. Twilight didn’t have to say anything, Adam already knew what this meant.

“Raggamuffin, why today?” Adam moaned. He began taking off his new blazer and said, “We are so getting fired.”

The two of them ran across the roof, throwing bits of their clothes away, revealing the super-suits they were wearing; once the masks were on, Spiderman and Spider-Girl jumped off the roof and began swinging across the city towards the smoke. The heroes began doing stunts in the air as they swung towards the crisis; they also spoke whilst they did so.

Spiderman stated, “Principle Doodle already hates me for being late.”

“I told you to be on time, Adam.” Spider-Girl replied.

“Let’s just get to the city and deal with Raggamuffin before we have to go looking for new jobs.”

Whilst they were swinging, the spider-heroes got a call from Sunset Shimmer; she was already in the Mobile HQ, and was assessing the situation. She greeted them with, “Hey babe, how was school.”

Before Twilight could answer her girlfriend, Adam butted in and said, “Focus Sunset, what’s going on with Raggamuffin? It’s been a couple of years since our last showdown.”

The heroes couldn’t see it, but Sunset rolled her eyes at Adam’s comment; she then replied, “Well, according to witnesses, Raggamuffin was seen running down the street mumbling nonsense. When a cop tried to bring him in, he just exploded, literally.”

Spider-Girl then explained, “He is one of the missing prisoners from that break-out a few weeks ago; a few supervillains managed to escape, Molten Man being one of them.”

“I really wish supervillains would just stay caught sometimes.” Spiderman stated.

The two heroes made it into the main city, and they could already see the trail of destruction Raggamuffin left in his wake. Twilight then thought of something that she thought could be of some help; she got Sunset back on the comm to ask her.

“Hey Sunset, any chance the rest of the team wants to get in on this action?”

All Sunset could reply with was, “Sorry Twilight, but the girls already called in a ‘no-go’ for this one. Applejack is busy on the farm with her family, Rarity’s new fashion business is keeping her occupied, Pinkie Pie’s entertaining a little kid’s birthday party and Rainbow Dash and Soarin are out of town.”

Spiderman, who was also listening to this call, replied, “Again? Those two think that because of their speed and flight powers, they can go wherever they want, whenever they want.”

“Be fair, Adam; they can.” Sunset replied. “Oh and Fluttershy called, told me to tell you to be careful and she loves you.”

Adam chuckled before replying, “That’s my wife, always worrying.”

“But surely if there's an emergency, the girls should come and help us. Great responsibility and all that.” Twilight stated.

But Adam replied, “No way, you need to find the balance between hero-work and social life; if they say they can't help, we respect their wishes.”

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a truck came flying through the air and almost his Adam; Twilight shouted, “Look out!” Allowing Spiderman to dodge the projectile and continue swinging towards the chaos.

“Thanks, but I think we found him.” As the giant cloud of smoke began to clear, the heroes could see right in front of them, the causer of the destruction. “Raggamuffin!”

Stood in the middle of the city was a giant goliath lava monster, he was as tall as the towers surrounding him; buildings were being melted away, the police and rescue service were trying to get the people evacuated. The city has never been in this much disarray since the Symbiote attack three years ago.

“SPIDERMAN.” The lava monster said as his giant voice echoed through the city streets.

Raggamuffin began swinging his arms in the air, throwing lava balls at the Spiders. The heroes dodged the attacks and kept swinging around the giant, trying to think of a way to stop him.

Twilight commented, “Whoa, that’s Molten Man?” there was so much going on, the heroes had to talk over the comms.

Without warning, the lava giant hurled a piece of debris at Spiderman; he was too slow to dodge it and the impact sent him flying into a building, he latched onto the wall before he could get hurt. “This is bad, he’s never gotten that big before; we need to stop him before he hurts someone, or himself.” Spidey jumped off the wall and started swinging towards him again.

Spiderman dodged the flying debris and Molten Man swung his arms around again; after each dodge, pieces of rubble would break free from the giant’s body. Spiderman grabbed these small pieces and began throwing them back at his face.

“So, the plan?” Spider-Girl asked

“Maybe he’s hungry; I should toss the big guy a snack.” Adam joked as he continued to hurl rock at Raggamuffin. “Hang on, I’ve got an idea.” Seeing a chunk of rock that he could latch onto without burning himself, Adam web-zipped towards Molten Man’s face and stuck onto where his nose should be.

Molten Man noticed this, and grabbed him; the giant’s hand was hot, Adam could feel the heat through his suit, it was protecting him the best it could. Raggamuffin held Spiderman in his hand, and looked down at the tiny hero.

“Still angry after all these years, Raggamuffin?” Spidey asked. “You should try yoga.”

But that comment just made the lava villain mad, he threw Adam at a nearby building, sending him crashing through the window. When Spiderman got up, Molten Man stuck his hand into the opening and released a flood of lava; the people inside began running for their lives, and Spidey decided to do the same.

“That was your idea?” Twilight commented.

“Never said it was a good one.” Adam replied as he ran from the lava. Spiderman had to parkour over furniture and use his webs to jump over or swing around molten hot hands that would sprout up out of the lava. “It was supposed to be a normal day; teach some physics, have awkward conversations in the teacher’s lounge, finally find out what’s in the teacher’s lounge.”

Adam caught up with the people running, they had made it into a large open room that led to the stairwells; however, one person was falling through the floor, it was giving out and he was falling through it. Spiderman shot him with a web-line and pulled him into his arms; Adam started carrying this man as he swung across the large room.

“Spider-Girl, you think you can sign for this delivery?” Adam stated. “It’s coming in hot...”

“I’m there!” Twilight Sparkle replied, she could be seen running across the window outside; Spiderman threw the civilian out the window and into Twilight’s hands.

Before the webbed-hero could take a breath, Molten Man punched the building; his giant lava fist went right through the structure and painfully pushed Adam through the wall and into the next room. When Adam got up this time, he saw pools of lava that had leaked into the room; but these were different, they started to mould and shape themselves into humanoid forms, lava-men.

“Mini-Minions. I wish I could do that.” Adam joked.

Spiderman raised his fists and began fighting with the lava-men; it hurt his hands punching guys made of liquid fire, but he had to keep it up. He punched and kicked them all down, up until they would shatter into drops of lava. One of them tried to run up behind the hero, but his Spider-Sense warned him; so he swung his leg around and kicked him away.

Suddenly, during the fight, Adam got a call on the phone system in his mask.

“Mr Shy.”

“I’m sorry, who is this?” Adam replied, still struggling to fend of the minions.

The caller replied, “Principle Doodle. All students have evacuated their classrooms. Where are you?”

Adam didn’t have an answer at the moment; without warning, a dozen lava-men sprouted out of the ground, swarming the hero and disorientating him. The amount of heat that these minis were generating, the floor suddenly gave out, causing all of them to fall to the floor below them.

“Mr Shy?!” Cranky Doodle said, starting to get angry.

Spiderman tried to push away the lava-men, he replied, “I just forgot something... at my... car.” The hero jumped up into the air and swing-kicked the minis away. As he continued to fight the more that were being created, Adam was able to reply, “I’m just running back now.”

“Get back here and supervise your students...or else.”

The call then ended, leaving Adam to do his fighting. One lava-man went to punch the hero, but he dodged the attack and punched him back; Adam then leaped up into the air and pulled him up with webs, before slamming him into the ground.

Whilst the brawl continued, Twilight called her partner, “Spiderman, how are we looking?”

“Uh Twilight, Principle Doodle called.” Spidey replied.

Spider-Girl was hesitant to ask, “Oh boy, are we getting fired?”

Adam replied, with attitude, “Well, we abandoned students we were meant to supervise during a city wide emergency. So I’d say its pretty likely.”

Suddenly, Molten Man punched his fist into the building Spiderman was in and grabbed the hero in his giant grip. Adam once again felt like he was being cooked alive in the grip of a monster made of lava and liquid metal. What happened next was unexpected, from the monster’s arm, regular sized Molten Man emerged; he walked along the arm, towards the hero.

Spidey struggled to say, “Molten Man....”

Because he was regular sized, Raggamuffin sounded normal, with his Irish accent, “You know, I’m starten’ to hate that name.”

“I know you’re angry with me, but...”

Before Adam could finish, Raggamuffin shouted, “This has nothing to do with you, just leave me alone!” A splash of water suddenly fell on Raggamuffin’s shoulder, they both noticed a water pipe fitted into the ceiling.

Spiderman stated, “I want to help you. But I’m gonna have to hurt you first.” Adam broke his arms free and shot two web-lines at the water pipe; with a powerful pull, Spidey snapped the pipe, dropping water onto Molten Man. The water extinguished the heat on his body so the regular sized Raggamuffin froze into rock, the statue then shattered into pieces before the goliath Molten Man released his grip of Spiderman.

The webbed-hero then jumped out of the building and started swinging towards the giant; however, Molten Man regained his senses and swatted Spidey to the ground. Adam was seconds from landing in a small pool of boiling lava, until someone swung in and grabbed his hand.

Adam looked up to see Spider-Girl had just caught him; when he was able to, she threw him into the air and he started swinging for himself.

“I guess he wasn’t in a reconnecting mood.” Twilight Sparkle joked.

A small chuckle could be heard from Adam as she made that joke; the two heroes swung towards where the Molten Man giant was now. In his loud echoing voice, Raggamuffin demanded, “LET ME GO... OR I’LL KILL YOU!”

Spider-Girl had read all the files on this guy, she has also seen Spiderman take this guy down twice, she now knew a thing or two. Using two web-lines, she grabbed a large piece of rock debris and threw it at the giant’s shoulder, causing a chunk of his torso to shatter.

“Whoa, that got him.” Twilight stated.

She could hear Adam on the comm system, “He hates water. His shoulder must've gotten wet from the water pipe. But we need more though.”

Twilight replied, “I’ll hit him with webs while you bring the rain.”

As Spider-Girl swung closer to Raggamuffin, he picked up an empty fire truck and threw it at her; she dodged the incoming threat and then started pelleting his face with webs. Once his face was covered, Spider-Girl used web-lines to pull pieces of his face off and whack the giant continuously in the face with them. She finished the attack by swinging the chunks around like a wrecking ball and shattering them on the side of his head, causing Raggamuffin to become disoriented.

“Somebody order some water?” Spiderman was swinging into the fight, using a web to drag along a water-tower he pride from a rooftop. He threw the water-source at Molten Man’s other arm, the cold liquid was causing his arm to freeze into rock.

Spider-Girl used more webs to grab another debris piece and throw it at the giant’s frozen arm, causing the whole limb to shatter; but before she could swing away, Molten Man grabbed her in his other hand and threw her away. Twilight was flung across the city, but she luckily thought fast and used web-lines to catch herself with; and using those same webs, she sling-shot’ed herself back to the fight.

For that act of impoliteness, Twilight pelleted Raggamuffin’s face with webs again, before prying chunks of his head off again and rapidly striking him with them.

“I thought I lost you for a sec there.” Adam said over the comm.

Spider-Girl replied, “You can’t get rid of me that easily.” The two heroes started swinging around the goliath once again, Twilight stated, “Time for Sunset to work her magic.” She contacted Sunset Shimmer on the comm system, “Sunset, we need a big water source.”

“I’ve been checking the water network, you need the tower on top of the Royalty Building, we’re talking ten thousand gallons here.” Sunset replied.

The two Spiders started swinging for the Royalty Building, but Raggamuffin was following them; he wasn’t after freedom anymore, he was after them. The heroes latched onto the side of the building and ran up to the roof, and the lava giant was climbing up after them.

“Wow, Raggamuffin’s going full Stay Puft.” Spiderman joked.

Twilight replied, “What?”

“Remind me to show you that movie when this is over.”

When the Spiders reached the roof, they found the water tower; but Molten Man rose up and raised his fist, with one powerful slam, he bashed Spider-Girl through the roof and deep into the building. Lava was seeping into the building, Raggamuffin’s mini-minions were spawning from them, they completely surrounded Spider-Girl.

But before they could attack, regular sized Molten Man rose out of the lava and appeared in front of her.

“After I was set free, I wasn’t even going to go back to robbing. I just wanted to live normal.” Raggamuffin explained.

Twilight replied, “This isn’t the way to do it.”

“For a lad like me, there is no other way.” Molten Man then melted back into the lava, leaving Spider-Girl with his minis.

But she wanted to get some answers out of him, “Wait, who released you..?” before she could finish, he was gone; Twilight had no choice, she had to fight her way out of this. Spider-Girl front flipped and kicked the first one down, she then web-zipped under the next and kicked him in the back, sending him flying into the wall.

Just then, the wall shattered and more minis came charging through; Twilight jumped over them and ran past them, there wasn’t enough time to deal with them. But before she could continue onwards, Molten Man’s fist came crashing through the wall; Twilight saw Adam latched onto the thumb.

“Stay inside, Spider-Girl.” Adam ordered.

When the giant moved his hand out of the way, Spider-Girl kept moving up to the upper floors; however, more and more minis were blocking her path. She had no choice but to fight this time, the hero couldn’t let these things run rampant.

The first mini charged at Twilight, but she pulled it forward with a web-line to kick it in the side of the head, before upper-cutting it in the chin. While she kept fighting, she got a call on her mask-phone; it was her Mom calling.

Twilight answered, “Hey Mom, what’s up?”

“What is all that noise?” Twilight Velvet asked.

“Uh, I’m helping the students evacuate the school; the cities in chaos right now, Mom.” Spider-Girl replied as an explosion went off in the background; she spun around and kicked away one of the mini-minions.

‘Velvet explained, “I know, the Spider-Heroes are fighting that giant lava monster, I just can’t figure out why it’s so crazy.’

A mini grabbed Twilight from behind and held her in place, the hero struggled to get free, “Mom, can I call you back; the principle needs all the teachers to help with this.” Twilight then ended the call with her mother and broke free from the grip; she then stomped on the minion’s knee, forcing him to the ground, and then punching it right in the nose.

Spider-Girl kept climbing through the building, right up until she reached the top floor; when she was about to head for a window to get up onto the roof, Molten Man pride the roof away.

“Okay, we got the water tank.” Spiderman could be heard saying over the comm.

But Twilight replied, “Actually, he does.”

Spider-Girl web-zipped to the roof the giant was holding, but the villain was tilting it towards his face; and his enormous mouth was wide open.

Spiderman swung onto the scene and said, “Sorry I’m late, what did I miss?”

Twilight was tumbling across the slanted roof, about to fall into Molten Man’s mouth; she cried, “He’s trying to eat me!” Luckily, Spiderman shot a web-line and caught Twilight before it was too late.

“Let’s give him a drink instead.” Adam stated, before swinging Twilight around, allowing her to kick the water tank; she pushed it over and it dropped gallons of water onto the lava giant.

The water was doing the trick; Molten Man shrunk down to half the size he was and froze into hot stone. The two heroes let out a relaxing sigh, it was over; no more lava monster.

If only they knew; Molten Man’s arm snapped off, allowing lava to flow from the statue and down the street. It was like a burning hot tidal wave, melting everything in it’s path and absorbing all the metal it came into contact with.

“Did we get him?” Twilight was hesitant to ask.

Adam replied, also worried, “No, we just made him angry.”

The two Spiders started swinging after the lava wave, it was heading for the edge of the city, towards the river. The lava flowed all the way up to the bridge that connected Canterlot City with its neighbouring island.

“He’s heading for Stallion Bridge.” Spiderman explained. “Its covered in cars and vehicles.”

Spider-Girl replied, “What happens if he gets all that metal?”

“I think he just did.”

After absorbing as much metal as he could, Molten Man grew back into his giant form; but what he didn’t realise was that the bridge was not built to hold someone of his weight.

Twilight shouted, trying to reason with the lava giant, “You have to calm down, Raggamuffin; innocent people are going to get hurt.”

“YOU CARE ABOUT THEM, BUT NOT ME!” Molten Man began pulling pieces off of himself and throwing them like giant lava balls. “THEY WOULDN’T LISTEN TO RAGGAMUFFIN! BUT THEY CAN’T INGORE MOLTEN MAN!”

The heroes landed on the bridge, at the feet of the giant; and from the pools of lava, more minis were spawning. Raggamuffin noticed them below him, he kept moving his giant feet, trying to stomp on the heroes. But all they could do right now was take out the minions.

Spiderman kicked a mini away, before grabbing his face with a web-line; Spider-Girl then grabbed its leg with her own web and they both slammed him on the ground. Adam then grabbed a piece of debris with his webs and swung it around; this knocked some of the minis away, knocking some of them into the river. Twilight back-flipped kicked the last one into the air and kicked in the side on its way down.

There was only one way to end this, and Raggamuffin’s anger was going to be his undoing. Spiderman started provoking him; the hero needed him to hit the bridge.

“Hey, hot head; you call yourself a giant? You couldn’t hit the broadside of a battleship!”

Now that made Molten Man mad; the lava-giant raised his fists in the air, the Spiders had to time this just right. Raggamuffin slammed his fists onto the bridge, Adam and Twilight jumped off at the last minute; the bridge shattered from that last blow, sending all three of them tumbling into the river.

A huge wave was made as the giant splashed down into the water, no way was he coming back from that; the heroes emerged from the water, keeping themselves afloat. They both looked at the bridge they kind of just helped destroy.

Adam said, “This city’s architects are going to hate us.”

But Twilight said, “Please tell me it was Raggamuffin that made this water warm.”

Spiderman just shook his head; with all that said and their job done, the Spiders began swimming back to the shore.

One hour later, the police had arrived on the scene; things were somewhat under control now. They’d fished Raggamuffin out of the river and got him into a secure containment cell; they were just waiting for the helicopter to carry him back to Rykers Prison.

Raggamuffin had reverted back to his human form, but that didn’t stop him from banging his hands on the glass wall of his cage; he was yelling repeatedly, clearly not happy about being recaptured.

The two Spiders approached the cage, wanting to talk with the inmate; Twilight was the first to speak, “Raggamuffin, its going to be okay.”

But the villain just turned away from them, “I have not been ‘okay’, for so long.”

“If you need help, all you have to do is ask.” Adam explained.

They both then heard a chuckle come from Raggamuffin, he turned back to them and said, “You two are the ones that are gonna need help.” The cage was starting to be hoisted into the air. “When they come for you.” He finished.

“Come for us.” Spiderman repeated.

They watched as Raggamuffin’s cage was lifted above them and carried across the river, back to the prison; leaving the two of them puzzled by his words.

2 Months Earlier

It was late at night, the streets of Canterlot city were barely lit up by the street lamps; a man was walking home from work, a very hairy man.

You see, when Doc Ock’s machine exploded all those years ago, spreading Energon across the city, a lot of people were affected by it. However, not all of them became evil supervillains; some wanted to keep their powers a secret, as to not be judged for being different.

Unfortunately, not everyone could hide what they were now. What this man didn’t know, was that he was being followed.

He kept himself to himself, but he could tell something was not right, so he began running a little faster; right up until he was forced to head down an alleyway. But it was a bad move, because the alley dead ended; he turned around to see the now multiple people who had been on his tail.

These people looked truly menacing, all dawning the same attire; a black hoodie to hide themselves, that paired with a purple hockey mask to hide their faces. On the temple of the mask, something was painted on, a picture of the planet Earth with the letter ‘T’ & ‘H’ written over it.

And emerging from the group of masked thugs, was the person that seemed to be their leader; with his bald head, ghostly white skin and sharp shark teeth. Tombstone, former drug-lord and known enemy of Spiderman.

Tombstone approached the hairy man, and picked him up by his neck; the thug muttered, “You call yourself a Meta-Human; we’ve been on your tail for hours, and you had no idea.”

The man begged for his life, “Please, I’m not even a proper Meta-Human; I don’t have any special powers, I just look different.”

All Tombstone said in reply was, “Pathetic.” With one flex of his hand, Tombstone broke the poor man’s neck, killing him. He then threw the lifeless corpse to the ground; but he was not happy about this. The former drug-lord turned to his crew and said, “I’m talking about you, you’re all pathetic. One Meta’ dead a week is not good enough.”

The one thug that was brave enough, approached his boss with a tablet; the screen showed the latest news report. Tombstone took the tablet and looked at the headline, ‘Ravencroft Institute to open next month’; this was the break this gang had been looking for, a chance to hit hard at the Meta-Humans.

He looked back at his men and ordered, “Get the choppers ready, we’ve got work to do.”